Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Free Music Review: A five star follow up to Dark Side
Hit: 5 Stars
On Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd showed that they had learned to discipline themselves, abandon the long-winded and sometimes aimless meanderings of much of the band's post Piper recordings and thereby produce a masterpiece incorporating into their music all of the things that we loved about the band but in a more structured and cohesive manner than on, say, Atom Heart Mother. Fortunately, throughout the remainder of the 1970's Floyd retained the newly learned lessons and were therefore able to offer their fans a further trio of great LP's - Animals, The Wall and, of course, Wish You Were Here. For me Dark Side will always be the band's crowning achievement. However, I would not quarrel with anyone who argues that Wish is the band's best album. The two records are really quite different from each other. Although Wish does contain two shorter songs - the brilliant and funny Have a Cigar and the emotional title ballad, the centre piece of the album is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, an extended piece of music, in two parts. It is a fabulous example of 1970's prog/psychedelic rock. Free Music Review: Great Follow Up
Hit: 5 Stars
This disk proved a great follow up to the band's ground breaking masterpiece, "Dark Side Of the Moon". The songs are mostly written as inspired by Syd Barrett, the founding member who was suffering with drug aided dementia. Gilmore's guitar is cutting, from the introduction of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", through the entire album. Great acoustic guitar interplay highlights "Wish You Were Here", and the thumping bass and keyboards provide background mood for the vocal harmonies of "Welcome to the Machine". Dick Parry provides memorable sax solos throughout. This disk also features a great rocker that tells the tail of Pink Floyd's struggles with the record executives, "Have a Cigar", which is sung by a non-member of the band, Roy Harper. This is a great release which provides a different mood than "Wish You Were Here", but still captures the greatness of the band.Free Music Review: Wish You Were Here
Hit: 4 Stars
Wish You Were Here being Pink Floyd's 1975 and their follow up to the epic release Dark Side of the Moon is like the prior album a magnificent album. The booklet is really strange with many artsy photos. All the lyrics are included but no listing of whom plays what which is a shame. The sound is a mix between, Bowie and Kraftwerk and being that I like both of these artists it was natural for me to also like this. 4/5. Free Music Review: the WORST Dolly Parton album
Hit: 2 Stars
I am greatly disappointed for this CD let me down enormously.
I have been collecting many foreign pressings with rare Dolly tracks and a friend hinted me at this CD which I think is a blemish if not a downright insult on the one heck of a woman music DollyParton is made famous for.
Man, I tell you, she did not sing ANYWHERE on this petty CD, I would rather feed the gators this junk.
0 stars
Joe Bauer
Free Music Review: Wish granted
Hit: 5 Stars
Cut-for-cut, this is probably the best album Pink Floyd ever released: passionate, pained, straightforward, and even powerful in a way that doesn't require the listener to be hyped up and out of their mind on LSD. The merits of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" might be debatable (less so the second half), but there's no debating the power of the rolling satire "Have a Cigar" or the even poignant "Wish You Were Here." The effects-heavy "Welcome to the Machine" even hits the spot. It's ironic that the band members have said that they weren't really "here" during the recording sessions, because they've never sounded more "here" on any other album.